Individual & Stylistic Variation for Synthetic Speech Prosody

stylistic variation individual variation the project other speech demos papers & dissertation
stylistic variation
Different sized attention spans - small, medium and large -
produce different styles - child-like, adult narrative and knowledgeable.

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Book cover from 100 Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude, 
by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

one paragraph (pp. 242)
small medium large synthesizer default
.AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV

rhymed poetry   top
the Jabberwock, original drawing by Sir John Tenniel

Jabberwocky 
by Lewis Carroll

first three verses
small medium large synthesizer default
.AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV

non-fiction    top
cute old-fashioned radio icon

News Report 
National Public Radio

first paragraph 
small medium large synthesizer default
.AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV .AU   .WAV
individual variation  top
Simulations using identical parameter values will never produce identical prosody.

comparison of 2 simulations
One Hundred Years of Solitude, 
by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 

one paragraph (pp. 242)

medium attention span
1st simulation 2nd simulation interleaved
AU   WAV AU   WAV AU   WAV

the project   top
critique approach linguistic analysis memory model map to pitch & timing
papers & dissertation    top
Janet Cahn
M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Cambridge, MA

cahn@media.mit.edu